In his artwork, Ayoung aims to reconstruct and recontextualize the “imaginary community” projected onto racial minorities by white society. He discusses the challenges faced by nonwhite artists as they strive for recognition and self-discovery.

Painter Valerie Jaudon positions her work between fine and decorative arts reconciling modernist and post-structuralist polemics with ease through open ended methods and interrogations that take on a uniquely seductive and feminine point of view.

Roland Legiardi-Laura invokes documentarian Barbara Kopple’s modesty as they discuss the extreme hardships and tensions involved in making Oscar-winning films such as American Dream and Harlan County, U.S.A.